The key to them being successful is found in this one little thing: We have to let God work out the details. You might have to take unplanned twist and turns or maybe do something that doesn’t make sense to you right then but it will in the end.  God wants our will to be submitted. When we can do this things flow much easier. That’s not to say you won’t meet certain challenges because you will. Anything that God’s elect does for His kingdom will encounter resistance from the other kingdom but you cannot be moved. Distractions will come from some of the most unlikely places sometimes people you never imagined will come right out of left field over something that is so mundane its almost comical.

So when you make your plans be submissive to the Master’s designed plan for you and when “situations” arise just know that you’re closer to the end than you realize.

#haveagr8day2dayInHim

Brett

So as you go through this journey remember He only prunes those branches that are bearing fruit so that they may bear more fruit and it won’t kill you it just makes you better for the master’s use.  You’ve got his word on it!

#Haveagr8day2dayInHim

Brett

 #haveagr8day2dayInHim

 Brett

As we go day by day the pages of life keep on turning. There is nothing that we can do to prevent it. Its going to happen. It’s by design and for a purpose. When the pages turn sometimes we know ahead of time that it’s coming then there are times that they catch us seemingly by surprise and when they do we can either embrace or mourn it we have that choice. Deuteronomy 30:19 tells us to choose life. Choose that thing or the way that best represents the life Christ gave himself so that you could make that choice.

Today choose life and rest in God’s love!

Brett

Whether to do it or not because it’s not in the New Testament.

That’s not true while it is an OT principle: Abram gave tithes or a tenth to his priest Melchizedek  Gen14:18-20   and was practiced among the Priest in Leviticus27:29-31. The New Testament tells us that Jesus was made an High Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek Hebrews5:5-10;6:20;7:1-21.

How do you do it before taxes or after? Before taxes right off the top. It is a tenth of your gross income not the net. Let’s look at in agricultural terms, If you planted a hundred acres of corn on rented land where you had to give the owner 10% of the harvest. You wouldn’t deduct the cost of the seed, man hours spent on planting and harvesting, nor the cost of fuel to accomplish it out of his 10%. You would give him his right off the top. Is not God worth better treatment or at least the same?

The most heated one: giving your money to a preacher. You are not giving your money to a preacher. The Man or Woman of God who consistently speaks the word of God into your life-is your priest. This is whom you have been led to by the spirit of God. If we look at this on the most practical level there is. All “Church Houses” have expenses just like your house only higher. When you roll up in there in the summer the AC is working, if not someone has to come out and repair it maybe even replace it! Do you think that they will do it for free because it’s a church? In the winter that heat is on and its nice and toasty on those cold mornings and nights when services are being held. The electricity to keep both on has to be paid for. When you use the bathroom at church, the water bill has to be paid. We haven’t even got to toilet paper, soap, paper towels, Kleenex etc…… If you have a sound system, stage lights and props for when the kids put on their Christmas productions. These are the things your tithe covers. And I haven’t even mentioned the employees of the church. Who cuts the grass, shovels the snow and cleans the church? As noble a thought as it might be you can’t find enough volunteers to “faithfully” do it (the everybody, somebody, anybody, nobody rules comes to play).  Let’s not forget the Pastor’s salary and his staff. Today’s climate has also made it necessary for church’s to hire accountants, lawyers and security. I could go on and on but I just want to make my point clear.

Tithing is a worship experience. True worship is not so much found in a song but it’s in your heart. It’s the place where you set aside your wants and desires to obey God and his word.

If God favored with you with some money, I don’t think a dime on a dollar is too much to ask in return.  

Brett

This morning I began thinking about it and how grateful I was because I didn’t know whose number I thought I had lost forever and how the problem was rectified by simply throwing some stuff away. The other day @BishopNoelJones sent out on twitter that it’s time to un-clutter your life. Too much clutter and your mind can’t think straight! This phone experience reminded me of something that I desperately need to deal with. Which brings me to this thought: What do I need to throw away, in the natural and character wise, which just might be clogging up my flow with the Spirit causing me to be distracted in a real subtle fashion?  Asking the Holy Spirit to show you will produce some sobering results so be prepared!

 Brett

I challenge you today to go into your prayer closet and begin interceding daily for not only the lost but for our fellow team members according to Col1:9-14.  Use your heavenly language and Rom 8:26-27  will become activated assuring that the perfect prayer has been said.

Brett

The tests are not God ordered, its life and he allows it giving you all of the tools you’ll need to win upfront. I have learned that sometimes walking in love means to just keep quiet when everything in me wants to say something. In my journeys I picked up this tool that is so powerful “the restraint of pen and tongue.”  With today’s technology you can add keyboard in there also.  If I can let the Holy Spirit gently guide me to the word as he did this morning 1Peter3:13-17 Amp, I can ignore the distractions by allowing him to show me what’s important.

You can rest assured the tests are coming! The love test will come on all fronts just remember the greater the test the closer you are to breakthrough. Will you pass the test or fail and have to take it over again? You CAN pass the test if you let love and peace be your guide.

Brett

All we have to do is look at world events and see that the earth is in labor. I don’t know what trimester it is but it is getting close. When Sandy hit NY and the surrounding areas I thought about all of those movies they’ve made about NY being frozen and flooded. Fiction predicted reality huh? Natural disasters are increasing and occurring more frequently. People killing people and they honestly believe that its Gods will for them to do so (Jn16:2). Constant unrest in the Middle East /Israel, economic uncertainty engulfs the non-Tither. Like the old folks used to say “The world’s going to hell in a hand basket” all the while the gospel is being preached more and more around the world. This is the sign that we look at. The word of God is going forth like never before, with that comes new revelations about that word. All of a sudden a scripture that we could recite backwards has taken on a new meaning we never saw before and all the time it was right there under our nose.

God is speaking to us more and more by His Spirit. Spirit to Spirit is how he communicates with us. Judge everything you hear and see by the spirit. Does it line up with what God has already spoken to us in His word? If so your spirit will bear witness of it. But you can’t know it if you don’t spend time daily in His word. Your adversary the devil knows how crucial the word of God is to his demise, that he will send all kinds of noise and disturbances to distract and keep us from arming ourselves with the very thing that will ensure our victory.

Stay focused because it’s a fixed fight. I cheated and read the back of the book and it says WE WON!!

Brett

The one thing we have that will never change is God. When things seem to be going sideways the sooner I can grab hold of my emotions and not “go there” the Holy Spirit WILL step in and gently offer little markers to get back on course. One of those is remembering back when. If I made it through that then surely with God’s help we will make it through this.  My Bible tells me Jesus is the same yesterday today and tomorrow.  One of our instructors in the school of ministry says God already put it in the budget. He has made provisions in advance for everything that you will ever need.

So remember, it  doesn’t matter what your “this“ is, God is greater and he has a plan that is designed to bring you out and just like he was there with the Hebrew boys in the fiery furnace he is with you and you’ll come out whole and not even smell like smoke.

Brett